Are you ready to grow your career with a custom-build manufacturing company who builds water-reuse solutions (pumping, treatment, headworks) for municipal, industrial, commercial and government markets worldwide?   

Do you want to be on a team dedicated to providing smarter ways to preserve Earth’s most precious resource?  

 

Then apply today and join a continually stable, successful, family-owned business with an eye toward Protecting water. Protecting PeopleTM.

 

The Sales Engineer will travel within a territory to meet with manufacturers reps and customers directly to identify opportunities to retrofit our existing wastewater pumps and treatment plants. This is a salary and commission based position requiring approximately 50-75% travel.

Additional responsibilities include:

  • Follow-up with assigned Technical Representatives on inquiries and projects, tracking from inquiry to order. 
  • Work with engineers to understand and communicate the customer's design specifications.
  • Train Representatives on equipment and how it operates and is maintained. 
  • Guide Consulting Engineers and End-Users on how existing equipment can be upgraded to current technology.
  • Provide technical assistance to Representatives and Municipalities. 
  • Occasional lead presenter for our Pump School Program. This includes traveling onsite to teach Pump School to professionals for continuing education credits and generate retrofit leads.
  • Maintain open and effective line of communication between the sales representatives, application engineering group, and internal departments, promoting team effort, mediating differences, and improving interpersonal relationships and cooperation. 
  • Maintain effective line of communication with customers (including end users, contractors, and designers) as necessary for overall success.
     
     

Job Requirements:

  • College degree in Engineering or equivalent technical sales experience is required.
  • A background that includes knowledge of pumping, waste-water treatment, electrical control systems or other capital equipment is preferred. 
  • Experience in Engineering, or working for a Manufacturer's Rep firm, is a plus.
  • The ability to work with and communicate with a variety of people in a positive, persuasive and professional manner is critical

If you enjoy engineering and developing business relationships for an exciting product built to last then we are the right company for you. 

We are proud to offer our employees

  • Medical Insurance 
  • Dental Insurance
  • Life & AD&D Insurance
  • Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Paid Vacation & Sick/Personal Time
  • Annual Bonus
  • 401K w/Match 

A Great Place for Your Career

Be a part of the Smith & Loveless team, which develops smarter and more efficient ways to solve the world's environmental challenges. Based in metropolitan Kansas City, with offices and affiliates in suburban Denver, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London and Auckland, we design, engineer, manufacture, install, and service industry-leading solutions for the transfer, purification, and conservation of our world’s most precious resource, water.

As an industry leader in water treatment and pumping system solutions, Smith & Loveless offers challenging careers across various business and technical functions in diversified regional, national and international markets. Our careers provide opportunities for all kinds of people, from those in the beginning stages of their career all the way to experienced professionals.

With a diverse product line of solutions and equipment installed in more than 75 nations globally, Smith & Loveless employees enjoy our strong company reputation, innovative brands and a proud legacy of success of making the world a better place.  

Our world headquarters are located in Lenexa, Kansas, a convenient drive from anywhere in the Kansas City area.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. 

 

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Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.